Happening Now: Wageningen University’s Fourth Annual Autonomous Greenhouse Challenge
May 9, 2024 In April, Wageningen University & Research (WUR) kicked off its fourth annual Autonomous Greenhouse Challenge. This year, competing teams will grow dwarf tomatoes for the first time in challenge history. Each year it hosts the competition, the university aims to show how computer algorithms increase crop production while saving energy.
How the Challenge Works:
- Experts in greenhouse production and AI form teams to compete in the Online Challenge and Hackathon Event from April until June.
- In August, the top five teams from the virtual challenge will compete against each other in the Autonomous Greenhouse Challenge until January 2025.
- Each team gets a compartment at WUR’s greenhouse facility in Bleiswijk, the Netherlands.
- WUR provides plants, data platforms, sensors and cameras for each team.
- Each team develops machine learning and computer vision algorithms to grow dwarf tomatoes autonomously.
- The Jury chooses a winner.
Who’s in the Jury:
- In-Bok Lee – Full Professor at Seoul University, Laboratory of Aero-Environmental and Energy Engineering.
- Kathy Stepp – Full Professor at Ghent University, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering and steering committee member of UGent Agrotopia.
- Leo Marcelis – Full Professor of Horticulture and Product Physiology at Wageningen University, the Netherlands.
For more information about the competition and to follow along, click here.
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Happening Now: Wageningen University’s Fourth Annual Autonomous Greenhouse Challenge